Gorgeous summer, pure zest for life, creative aesthetics - all these and more are attributes that put the participants of the 14th Festival del Sole 2018 in Italian Adriatic City Riccione in these days almost into a dynamic movement spree and come to the viewer, even when he sees the pictures from the opening day. In the meantime, this top event of mass sports of general gymnastics and and the diversity of gymnastics disciplines is...

At the 2018 Suomi GYM Festival 2018 in Turku, Finland, the men's group "KadonneetPojat", which means "Lost Boys", was awarded a trip to the 58th BLUME GRAN CANARIAfestival after their original appearance. The nine men from the Finnish university city of Jarväskula all belong to the somewhat "mature youth" (50+) and are led and directed by a very sympathetic young lady. On behalf of the Spanish BLUME Organizing Committee, the German BLUME Festival Ambassador Klaus Witte...

The first FIG World Cup event for Parkour concluded in Hiroshima / Japan on Sunday with the women’s Speed-run and men’s Freestyle final – and with the satisfaction of having proved a huge popular success. Launched as part of a new Japanese leg on the FISE’s Festival of Action Sports circuit, the Parkour competition generated massive public interest. The city of Hiroshima in Japan welcomed for the first time a FISE World Series stopover, from April 5...

Launching competitions, implementing a vast educational component and undertaking field work on a worldwide scale: 2018 is certainly a year of action for Parkour, some 11 months on from its arrival within the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)."2018 is the year in which we must cement the work that has been done since our rapprochement with the FIG. Milestones will be set through the implementation of...

* f i g --: Following courses in Argentina and Sri Lanka in 2017, Benin has become the third name on the map of countries to have organised a "Join the GfA Activities" course. Cotonou, site of the FIG Executive Committee meeting last October, hosted this latest course on January 19 – 20, bringing the programme to a third continent in the process. * ... read...